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L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade 2016
L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade 2016, the 7th annual fundraiser for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, an organization that raises money for childhood cancer research, took place last weekend on Royce Quad at UCLA, and once again did gangbusters. I’ll let the blurb on the top of the event website speak for itself: Over 2,000 people attended […]
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Best Bites of LA Times The Taste 2016
Los Angeles Times‘ annual multi-day food festival The Taste took place over Labor Day weekend this year (and I think every year). Last year I attended four events, two on Saturday and two on Sunday. This year, I was able to add the Friday night Opening Night event to my repertoire. View this post on […]
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Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival 2016
Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival is one of two multi-day festivals at the end of the summer–the other is Los Angeles Times The Taste (see my September 2016 food event round-up post for more info on that event). It is literally a red-carpet event, with Grand Avenue blocked off between 1st and 2nd Streets […]
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September 2016 Food Events and Festivals
September kicks off with a huge multi-day event over Labor Day weekend, then follows up with an intimate yet world-class fundraiser, another event benefiting culinary education and programs, and in the midst of it all is a series of guest chef dinners across different locations of one of the most popular gastropubs in town. September […]
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California Spirit 31 for American Cancer Society (2016)
California Spirit is an annual fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. In it’s 31st(!) year, the event is relatively small in scale, with only a dozen or so participating restaurants, but they managed to raise over $100k this year. The event was chaired by movie studio executive Sherry Lansing, co-creator of Everybody Loves Raymond and […]
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